New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-18

casl0nally, In desultoKy way, dis heai'" J"'
certain.
His restoration to comparative strength was SUI"
followed by his marriage with MISS Tucker and
ment over the Second Church. of Boston His first
marriage was unfortunate. his wife dying Oh CON
sump,ion very shortly. His ministry gave sats-
faction generally HIS style was simple ana direct
mite archaeological" and the young especially
we're attracted by his sermons lheir no'eitY'
ssvs Mr. Cabot $50 far as ] am able TO judge Hos
in the prominence that is given to ethical prin-
cines over doctriue: and even this does not seem
very marked" He remained at the Second Churcu
a ;ttIe more than three years, and then left IL be-
cause he could not bring himself TO regard the com
munion as a sacrament. OF this event Mr., Cabos
says.
1t is plain from all sides that his place was not In
the pulpit of any existing church; II he iooKei
back with regret TO the career that was thus cur
short 1t was because he looked upon 10, as ne sa,d
of PRAYER, as it ought to be. not as 1t Was In le3f
he made hls first visit 10 Europe Here Is one OF
his sea notes which is full of character:
Rose at sunrise, and under the lee OF the spcn-
had solitary, thonghtfu noar t NJ not ms
read unait arable love-. Tney shone with iighl lhaI
shines on Europe. Afrc. and the ME, and opened
nv spirits ear TO their most ancient hsmn. nat
they sand to me- goest til II forth so far 10 seek
painted canvas carved marble renowned towns
But fresh from us. new vernore, Is the creallVe
efllx from whence these works spring; lou nov
feel. m gazing at our neecy arch of light the mo-
tons that express themselves Ill arts You get no
nearer to the principle in Europs II almates man
II is the America OF America Ii spans the ocean
like a handb.eadth 1t smiles at lime and space
Yet welcome Young mani The universe II nospit-
able; the great God who Is love hath made you
aware of the forms and breeding OF His VIDE
house..
In Furooe he was not overawed. He rarely
saw anything that he had not expected, and
he passes without notice when orc might expect
him to sion and ADMIRE The chief even for
him was the meeting with CARLYLE at Craigen-
put.ock 1t was the opening of lifelong friend
shin between two men OF strongly opposed char
acter.
On returning home he soon began that course OF
lecturng which kept up eventually as long as ms
strength endured. though he was constantly med
itating its abandonment and being as constantly
compelled to resume it BY financial straits. In
1885 he married Miss LYDIA Jackson and bought
the famous Concord house which was his home Tor
the rest of his life. Here is a note of the event:
"Julv 81 1885. Has Charles told You that have
lodged the doom of building, and have bought the
Coolidge house in Concord, with the cXpectato on or
entering 1t next September! II Is in mean place,
and cannot be fine until trees ana fowers give ~
character of Its Own. Bnt we shall crowd so many
books and papers and # possible, wise friends INTO
it, that il shall have much wit asst can carry: NV
house costs me thirty-i &c hundred dollars ana NAV
next summer cost four or five hnndced more to on
large or finish The seller alleges that 1t cost MIN
seventy-eIght hundred"
few months after his settlement in Concord
Zone of his townSmen came to warn him that a
stray pig was doing mischief in the nelghoonng
ground He then learned that ne had been ap-
pointed one one of the hog-reeves for the year,
according to the town custom. which pointed out
newly married men particularly eligible for that
Office" Young Emerson as q hog-reeve! Mr.. Cabot
does not tell us whether ne discharged the func-
lions of his Office
Concord and Transcendentaism have become IN
Interchangeable terms. but the truth is that Emerson
never admitted that be was Transcendentais',
and objected to all attempts TO label him; a very
natural position seeing that it wOuld have pnz-
zled him at almost any period of his life to define
his beliefs rigldly Mr.. Cabot attempts to show
that the charges brought against the Transcen-
dentallsts, and which were certainly founded on
their own writings that they put their intuitions
above every thing as authority. Emcrson's own
language affords ground enough for such charge.
but Emerson did not really hold this doctrine.
Intuition with him. means some thing very differ
ent from infaible knowledge; it means. TO use his
own words, the openness of the human mind to
new Influx of light and power from the Divine
Mind" The subject IS considered at sufficient
length by Mr.. Cabot and it will be found interest
ing even by those who agree least with the Con-
cord school,
Here he met Alcott and Margaret Fuller. The
latter and he never could become truly intimate
She tried perslstenty to burst through his SHE'LL
but to no purpose. "She ever seems TO crave" says
Emerson in his journal, somewhat have not, or
have not for her." But il she coud not attain this
close personal intimacy, Mr. Cabot declares that
nobody could-nobody outside his own family
circle and the friends of his childhood" and this
regularity of his temperament made HIM often dis
appointing to visitors who knew him only through
his writings, and could get nothing out Of him in
person that satisfied or ut all warmed them. lie
admired Alcott greatly. and said of him in letter.
che has more of the godlike than any man have
ever seen and his presence rebukes aud threatens.
and raises; and again he calls him "the most
traordnary man, and the highest genius of his
time' He used to say that at would be pity If
Alcott should survive him. since lie alone possessed
the means of showing to the world what Alcott
really was"
Thoreau became acquainted with Emerson at this
time, too, and afterward spent two years in his
house. Emerson at Concord, says Mr.. Cabot.
"a good citizen and good neighbor with his neigh
bors always went to tOwn-meetlng, and listened
intentiv to the strong spirits who ruled the discus
sions, without taking any part himself lie served
on the school committee, attending the examiDa-
tons with much interest, particularly the exhibi-
lions of eiocution. He was a member and constant
the town. much the best society have ever
misunderstanding always of TWENTY-FIVE OF our
citizens; doctor lawyer, farmer. trader miller me-
chanic; sodest men, who yield the solldest gossip.
Harvard University is wafer in comparison with
the solid land which nv friends represent / do
not like TO be absent from home on tuesday even
Ings in WINTER
His habits of life were now settled He worked
always in the morning, rising early and going to
his study, where he remained until the l o'clock
dinner and in the afternoon went to walk. The
evening he spent with his family, some 'imes read
ing aloud. " He was sound sleeper. and never got
up at night some one has fancied to jot down
thoughts which then occurred to him."
OF his methods of reading. Mr. Cabot gives an
interesting description:
He did not even pursue his own. He was ever on
the watch for them, trying to render them without
loss into words. but of their farther relations TO
each other. or to the ideas Of other people. he
rather injurious In his spiritual astronomy,
search for stars he was the observer of single stars
as they came in'o the field of his telescopes no was
not making a map of the heavens. or even Of par
ticular reg on; he had nothing to do with the To-
suits of other observers. Let each look tor himself
and reoOrt what he sees: then. each has been